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differences (2020) 31 (2): 86–114.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Andrew Ragni This essay establishes points of contact between Sigmund Freud’s research on the anal-sadistic stage of infantile sexuality in the first decade of the twentieth century and the Irishman Roger Casement’s contemporaneous sexual practices in Peru while he investigated a colonial rubber...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 89–94.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Elissa Marder In “Cradling,” a chapter of Baudelaire and Freud , Leo Bersani shows how desire rocks the self. Desire always manifests as a movement that draws the self both toward and away from the object that excites it. Rocking simultaneously invokes infantile erotic enjoyment, an adult sexual...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 242–261.
Published: 01 December 2022
... ) Given the infant’s profound and prolonged original helplessness ( hilflosigkeit ), we already know that the adult is responsible for meeting a range of infantile needs, but what we have so far refused to acknowledge is that in the process of meeting those needs, the adult’s sexuality is provoked...
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 65–85.
Published: 01 September 2017
... development, within which a period of uninhibited infantile sexuality is followed by a period of repression that is, in turn, followed by another period of sexual development. Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson speculates that Freud and Fliess ended their relationship because of a conflict between Fliess’s use...
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differences (1998) 10 (1): 209–242.
Published: 01 April 1998
... source on what is ultimately a minimal zone, the erotogenic zone" (22). So how does the infantile, polymorphously perverse cacophony of drives ultimately come to appear as a coherent, uniform genital sexuality? Freud's first answer to this problem in the 1905 edition of the Three Essays is to posit...
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differences (1998) 10 (1): 30–74.
Published: 01 April 1998
... the refusal of developmental models, the classical list of the drives (oral, anal, and phallic) is problematic for another reason, namely, that it accepts too quickly the conclusions, apparently drawn by Freud, (1) that infantile sexuality, at first polymorphic, would eventually acquire a "mature genital...
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differences (2002) 13 (2): 57–89.
Published: 01 September 2002
... mother’s arousal of her as an infant. It is also
implied here that Louise is arrested in a pre-Oedipal stage of her sexual
development, meaning that she never moved beyond the infantile sexual
attachment to the mother, exchanging...
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differences (2023) 34 (2): 84–108.
Published: 01 September 2023
..., especially when read alongside the Three Essays , in which Freud devotes considerable attention to the pleasures of the mouth. Having distinguished between infantile sexuality or the polymorphous perversity of the pre-Oedipal drives, on the one hand, and adult sexuality or post-Oedipal genitality...
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differences (1993) 5 (1): 73–91.
Published: 01 April 1993
... or the production of Elvis himself. 9 My discussion here is informed by and indebted to Moi's essay. See particularly 199-200 (where she explains Freud's theory of infantile sexual curiosity) and 196-97 (where she comments on psychoanalysis's own model of knowledge). 10 See also Moi 199. 11 Gloria-Jean Masciarotte...
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differences (2020) 31 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2020
... of development, such as infantile sexuality, from a later period, when psychical development finally coincides with physical development), and perhaps in one of its most ambitious forms, the theory of phylogenetic heritage, which maintains that certain contents (and in particular “primal phantasies...
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differences (2010) 21 (2): 46–72.
Published: 01 September 2010
... is equally the
effect of polymorphous perversion. How is this so? In speaking of infantile
sexuality, Freud provides the example of thumb sucking, explaining that
in thumb sucking a child seeks a previously experienced pleasure...
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differences (1995) 7 (2): 127–149.
Published: 01 July 1995
... and their reconstruction into recognizably modern political subjects. For rather than enslave Filipinos, benevolent assimilation infantilized them as racial others in need of nurturance and tutelage in the fundamentals of "Anglo-Saxon democracy," not in order to turn them into Anglo-Saxons but rather into a "self...
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differences (2012) 23 (2): 1–19.
Published: 01 September 2012
... the adult world. The infant becomes an investigative theorist on such
an occasion, trying to fathom the strange force and direction of his or her
own impulses. The problem for infantile sexuality is not how to evade
death by punishment...
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differences (1995) 7 (3): 24–49.
Published: 01 November 1995
... . Bloomington : Indiana UP , 1987 . de Lauretis Teresa . The Practice of Love: Lesbian Sexuality and Perverse Desire . Bloomington : Indiana UP , 1994 . Derrida Jacques . Of Grammatology . Trans. Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 1976 . Fausto...
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differences (1997) 9 (1): 49–67.
Published: 01 April 1997
... as to perform in secret the triumph of the survivor who controls that representation. Especially in writing the death of parents, the most universally experienced traumatic loss and one that typically evokes the most intense ambivalences of infantile life, the writer of the personal essay provokes...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 135–143.
Published: 01 May 2023
... Nonetheless, common sense suggests that taking a look at Bersani’s many other hands might be more exciting. In Homos , onanism’s hand negotiates sexuality and the world. There, Bersani follows Freud to remark that “the agent of masturbation is the subject’s principal tool for manipulating the environment...
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differences (2019) 30 (3): 118–151.
Published: 01 December 2019
... to both a stage of infantile sexual development and a theory of interpretation, specifically the interpretation of dreams. This latter version of latency, the “latent content” of a dream (or, Laplanche and Pontalis clarify, “in a broad sense a designation for everything that analysis gradually uncovers...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 150–155.
Published: 01 May 2023
... fetish of psychoanalysis, just as much as it is the fetish of queer theory—the latter a point previously made by Brad Epps. I pointed out that, in the first of his Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality , Freud distinguishes the polymorphous infantile perversity he theorizes from adult perversion...
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differences (1992) 4 (1): 1–39.
Published: 01 April 1992
...." (J. Muller notes aptly that the free play of infantile sexuality guarantees self-esteem.) True enough, the orgasmic joys of early childhood constitute the means whereby genital sex, and therefore the budding personality itself, are foreshadowed and developed. What do we discover on the way to orgasm...
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differences (2006) 17 (1): 47–87.
Published: 01 May 2006
.... “The Language of Things: Walter Benjamin's Primitive Thought.” Semiotica 138.1/4 ( 2002 ): 321 -49. Braidotti, Rosi. “Embodiment, Sexual Difference, and the Nomadic Subject.” Hypatia 8.1 ( 1993 ): 1 -13. Brown, Wendy. States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity . Princeton: Princeton...
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